Signatures: *́œ A-2Íœ

2F2, 2G3, and 2I1 missigned F2, G3, and I1

Title within woodcut border; text printed in double columns

Woodcut initials

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

English short title catalogue

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Francis Bedford in umber morocco panelled in triple-ruled gilt. The armorial super-ex-libris of Almon W. Griswold is present on both covers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt. Present on the verso of the penultimate front endpaper is an inscription related to the volume's provenance initialed by Justin Winsor. The next leaf, being an earlier endpaper, contains the autograph of Thomas Northmore and inscriptions in the hand of Richard Heber on both the recto and verso. The autograph of H. Wayland, in a ca. late 16th-century hand, is present at the foot of the title page. In this copy, the final leaf (blank) is wanting

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